Walls Which Enclose Former Orchard For Kirklees Priory 80 Metres East of Priory Gatehouse
WALLS WHICH ENCLOSE FORMER ORCHARD FOR KIRKLEES PRIORY 80 METRES EAST OF PRIORY GATEHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300282
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Walls Which Enclose Former Orchard For Kirklees Priory 80 Metres East of Priory Gatehouse
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS WHICH ENCLOSE FORMER ORCHARD FOR KIRKLEES PRIORY 80 METRES EAST OF PRIORY GATEHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300282
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Walls Which Enclose Former Orchard For Kirklees Priory 80 Metres East of Priory Gatehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS WHICH ENCLOSE FORMER ORCHARD FOR KIRKLEES PRIORY 80 METRES EAST OF PRIORY GATEHOUSE
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS WHICH ENCLOSE FORMER ORCHARD FOR KIRKLEES PRIORY 80 METRES EAST OF PRIORY GATEHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 17500 22080
Details
BRIGHOUSE KIRKLEES PARK SE 12 SE 4/124 Walls which enclose former Orchard for Kirklees Priory 80 m. East of Priory Gatehouse
G.V. II
Long drystone walls. Early C16 with some later repairs. Hammer-dressed stone walls capped by offset weathered course and Gothic ridge triangular in section with roll moulding to apex. Quoined angles. The west wall has a gateway through with composite jambs with stop chamfer. The south wall runs alongside the Nun's Brook and is slightly higher than the east wall. All these retain their original Gothic coping, only the north wall (which still stands) lacks it.
It is likely that this is the wall referred to in the Post-Reformation Survey taken by the King's Commissioners first described by John Burton in Monastacum Eboracense (1758), also quoted by S. J. Chadwick, which reads 'Kirkleys, Scitus domorum' ........... 'Item one orchard enclosed wt. ane olde stone walle wt. few frute trees, conteyneth by estymacon iij roodes of grounde.'
S. J. Chadwick, Kirklees Nunnery (no date) p. 32. Copy held in library of Yorkshire Archaeological Society. The relationship of the boundary wall with the priory remains is illustrated by the plan of the 1904-5 excavations in Sir G. Armytage, Excavations at Kirklees Priory, Proc. S.A.L. 2S xxi, 1975 (May 3, 1906).
Listing NGR: SE1750022080
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338863
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Excavations at Kirklees Priory, (1975)
Burton, J, Monastacum Eboracense, (1758)
Chadwick, S J, Kirklees Nunnery, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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